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VICE PRESIDENT CALLS FOR PERSEVERANCE IN PUSHING FOR U.N. ENTRY

2004-05-07 19:10:50

Taipei, May 7 (CNA) Vice President Annette Lu called on the
public Friday to persevere and show firm determination in promoting
the country's bid to join the United Nations.

Lu made the appeal while meeting with a group of university
students that took part in a university student summit sponsored by
the United Nations in New York in late April to discuss issues of
public concern over regional conflict, peace, the environment, women
and children, human rights and economic and social progress.

After 15 years of persistent efforts, the two Koreas finally
succeeded in their U.N. entry bid, while it took the People's
Republic of China 22 years to have the U.N. give the Republic of
China's seat to Beijing in accordance with U.N. Resolution 2758 in
1971, Lu pointed out.

It has been only 12 years since the ROC government began
campaigning to rejoin the United Nations in 1992, Lu said.

Claiming that the ROC's withdrawal from the U.N. was mainly due
to an erroneous policy adopted by then-President Chiang Kai-shek, Lu
said that at that time, the United States and Japan voiced the hope
that the ROC would not withdraw from the U.N. while accepting
Beijing's entry into the organization. Chiang, however, refused to
accept the proposal.

Although the ROC still has a long way to go before it will be
accepted into the United Nations, the vice president said she is
confident that once Taiwan is admitted into the World Health
Organization, the island will also succeed in its bid to rejoin the
the United Nations.